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4-H at Home activity guides are created from submissions by 4-HΓÇÖers, leaders, and staff with dozens of experiments, lessons, and crafts for all ages.
4-H Yoga for Kids provides simple yoga exercises that can be performed in a variety of settings. The series includes fact sheets to teach poses and basic stretches, online videos, and other resources.
The U.S. Department of Defense offers non-medical counseling through two programs: Military and Family Life Counseling (MFLC) and Military OneSource. This study set out to answer the question of whether non-medical counseling programs are effective in improving program outcomes and if effectiveness varies by problem type and/or population. This report provides detailed findings of RAND NDRIΓÇÖs analysis based on two surveys provided to program participants.
The purpose of the School Liaison and Youth Sponsorship Best Practices Catalog is to create a central library of Child & Youth Education Services (CYES) "Best Practices" to facilitate information sharing between Navy Child and Youth Programs (CYP) and other Fleet and Family Readiness functional areas. A submission template has been provided for installations to submit their best practices for consideration. Submissions should be sent by installations to CNIC N926 CYES via each Region.
BGCA is conducting interviews with CYP professionals to gain a broader sense of what mentoring looks like in Youth Centers. If your Youth Center has mentoring strategies and approaches that are promising, strong, and impactful, please consider sharing your strategies and approaches with BGCA so that they can be applied to other Youth Centers across the CYP Enterprise.
Found within the BGCA.net website, the Youth of the Year (YOY) Leadership Journal is a tool for teens to record their thoughts, questions, ideas, and dreams about what they are learning and the kind or leader they're becoming. Navy CYPs are highly encouraged to provide the YOY Leadership Journal to prospective Military YOYs and teens alike. The journal is a great tool for teens to capture their thoughts, questions, ideas, and dreams over time to support their MYOY ambitions, college applications, and/or their identity as a whole.
Following health and safety best practices is an important way to provide quality early care and education for young children. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Public Health Association (APHA), and the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education (NRC) have released the Fourth Edition of Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards; Guidelines for Early Care and Education Programs. These national standards represent the best evidence, expertise, and experience in the country on quality health and safety practices and policies that should be followed in today's early care and education settings.
There are 14 specific primary terms included in IDEA under the lead definition of "child with a disability." These federal terms and definitions guide how States define disability and who is eligible for a free appropriate public education under special education law.